Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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1144 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V United States naturally produced elaborate discussion in the United Kingdom, and served as a basis for an amendment to the address in reply to the King’s Speech on the opening of Parliament in February 1911. But it is no new policy in Canada : it is the sequel of many years of steady progress. Reciprocity with the United States, which is naturally called for by the proximity of the States, has been the subject of tentative efforts from very early times, and a considerable measure of reciprocity was secured in 1854 by Lord Elgin’s treaty. Up till 1866, when the treaty terminated at the instance of the United States, the policy of reciprocity was accepted by every party in Canada, and the efforts of the Dominion Government, which came into existence in 1867, were devoted to securing a continuance of the arrangements. For that purpose steps had been taken in anticipation of confederation in 1865 by Mr. Galt and Mr. Howland, but these efforts were unsuccessful. In 1868 the first tariff of the Dominion was adopted, which included in the schedules an offer of reciprocity in natural products, which, with modi- fications to suit changed circumstances, was a feature of all Canadian tariffs down to 1894. In 1869 the Canadian Minister of Finance in Sir John Macdonald’s Government made offers to Washington which amounted to an offer of a very considerable degree of reciprocity, but these offers were rejected. In connexion with the negotiations of the Treaty of Washington in 1871, Sir John Macdonald, with the approval and assistance of the Imperial Commissioners, offered to concede access to the Deep Sea Fisheries of Canada in return for a renewal of the treaty of 1854, but this offer was also rejected. Sir John Macdonald resigned in 1873 in connexion with the Pacific Railway scandals, and the Liberal Ministry which succeeded him. in accordance with the national policy, which ' Pope, Sir John Macdonald, and Willison, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, supple- ment each other’s accounts of these transactions. See also Biggar, Sir Oliver Mowat, ii. 567-634; Hopkins, Sir John Thompson, pp. 273-89 ; Canada Sess. Pap., 1885, No. 34 ; House of Commons Debates. xxi. 295 seq., 457 seq. : Sifton in Toronto World, August 23. 1011.

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